Title: PhD Candidate

Department: English

Office: 
Email: john.j.morrell@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.A., English -- Vanderbilt University, 2005
• B.A., English -- Hamilton College, 2000

Research Area

• 19th - 20th Century American Literature
• Literature and the Environment, Science and Literature
• Ecocriticism, Critical Theory, Hemispheric Studies, Utopian Studies

Current Research

• "The Dialectic of Climate Change: Apocalypse, Utopia, and the Environmental Imagination"

Previous Positions

• Graduate Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching
• Graduate Instructor, English Department
• Graduate Writing Consultant, Writing Studio

Professional Societies

• MLA
• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
• Beat Studies Association (BSA)
• Thoreau Society
• Radical Philosophy Association (RPA)
• International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP)

Professional Honors

• Center for Teaching Graduate Teaching Fellowship
• Center for Ethics Dissertation Writers Fellowship
• Values and Environment Research Fellowship
• University Graduate Fellowship

Research Associates

• Food Politics Working Group

Publications

• "A review of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood." in AmeriQuests vol. 7 no. 2, 2010.
• "A review of Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America." in AmeriQuests vol. 3 no. 1, 2006.